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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: TonyMemphis on February 13, 2020, 01:06:10 PM
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Sorry to keep asking...the lack of documentation makes this stuff pretty frustrating. I really appreciate your help! Thank you!
So, I've been doing a lot of digging, but not found a solution. I want to make sure I am in in Machine Coordinates modes and that the DRO's display machine coords before I start a procedure. I can check the state using OSIG_MACHINE_CORD and that works. But how to toggle the,m if they are on Work Coordinates? Back to my VB days, I thought I'd just click the button but I read that is not a good method and I couldn't get it to work.
In my playing, I found that the Machine Coordinates On action doesn't work? Off works and Toggle works, but On doesn't. Wasn't sure how to do that from the script anyway.
Any ideas? Do I need to change the signal? Will that toggle the screen DRO's and button? I haven't tried that sort of thing yet.
Tony
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Looks like when the machine coords signal is changed, the toggle button and dro's are toggled as well. So I think this will do what I want. It seems to work. How exciting!
--attempt to check state of machine coords and change to machine coords if they are not
--already 1=true = machine 0 = false = work
local inst = mc.mcGetInstance()
local hsig = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_MACHINE_CORD)
local sig = mc.mcSignalGetState(hsig)
if (sig == 0) then
mc.mcSignalSetState(hsig,1)
end